One of the PEEKE program mentors who hosted interns, Autumn Oliver, the owner of The Boujie Bakery in Cleveland Heights, hired on her intern Shae as an employee after seeing how determined she was to support Autumn’s business. Shae biked to her interview more than 30 minutes each way because she didn’t have an easier mode of transportation to make it to the bakery. Autumn recalls being instantly impressed with her after that.

"I hired (Shae) in to work here, and she's amazing. She learned everything, memorized the recipes – she’s just really really good. She's like a little me.”
“PEEKE paid the interns; that really helped my business a lot because I got 150 (hours of support) where I didn't have to pay another person.” And the interns learned many skills that made them more impressive employees for future positions, including staying concentrated on the work at hand. 

The bakery offers funnel cakes, milkshakes, cheesecakes, creme brulee, and magic and lemon bars. They even celebrate Taco Tuesday with specialty dessert tacos. Autumn’s three interns got to help in the prep for all of the pastries.

"They were bakers, so they came here as baking interns, They helped prep cookies, brownies, cheesecake frosting because we make our own frosting, so they would help with everything in the kitchen.”